U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers arrested a 35-year-old Mexican man who allegedly had 42 pounds of methamphetamine stuffed into his PT cruiser.

The man was arrested Friday at the Port of Nogales DeConcini crossing in Arizona, about 70 miles south of Tucson. The meth, valued at about $126,000, was found in the rear quarter panels of the vehicle and in the windshield wiper reservoir.

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After seizing the drugs and vehicle, the officers turned the man over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations, according to a news release from Customs and Border Protection.

In December, border patrol agents arrested a tractor-trailer driver at the Mariposa Commercial Facility in Nogales after confiscating 6,500 pounds of marijuana found hidden in vats of strawberry jam. The marijuana was valued at about $3.25 million, officials said.